Job’s Psalm (Might as Well Be) | Episode 222

Barry walks us through Psalm 101, a psalm with parallelistic properties that points out a daunting fact: a sure way to be excluded from God’s house is to treat other people badly. This is likely why God found Job so blameless. Job practices what his friends did not:...

Who’s Testing Who Here? | Episode 196

Looking for shelter? Barry walks us through Psalm 91 and reminds us that God’s pinions are plenty strong and faithful enough to provide the protection we need in the midst of our inevitable troubles. What is confusing is that his plan sometimes looks more like a...

Belonging via Rejection | Episode 86

Barry walks us through Psalm 44, the journey of someone who is feeling the physical and emotional strain of suffering. At the start of the episode Barry asks us what one thing convinces us that we are loved by God. By the end of the episode, we receive a beautiful but...

All Day Every Day

I do not set an alarm. If my bio-clock has not stirred me by 5:00, my canine’s clock will. When I cycle to work, the commute is 9.85 miles. If I ride, say, 15 miles on a weekend jaunt (cyclists: please refrain from expressing your thoughts; I know my rides are...